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| Joel Khalili / Wired: |
Mt. Gox starts repaying customers, who will receive only ~15% of their lost bitcoins, but now worth many times more than their total 2014 holdings — Former customers of bankrupt crypto exchange Mt. Gox are preparing to be reunited with their lost bitcoin—and it's a $9 billion windfall.
More: Mt. Gox, CoinDesk, Forbes, CNBC, CNBC, The Block, Bitcoin News, Tom's Hardware, Decrypt, Coinbay, NewsBTC, Quartz, NBC News, 9to5Mac, Bloomberg, NBC News, CryptoGlobe, The Daily Hodl, Axios, The Crypto Basic, ZyCrypto, Watcher Guru, Crypto Adventure, CryptoPotato, Milk Road, and Cryptopolitan
Threads: @lovingnotworking. X: @intangiblecoins, @krugermacro, @dotkrueger, @cnbc, @lastcallcnbc, and @ashcryptoreal. LinkedIn: Coinbay
Forums: r/Buttcoin and r/Bitcoin
| Ben Church / CNN: |
A look at concerns about Saudi Arabia “sportswashing” as it hosts the Esports World Cup; Saudi Arabia's PIF has bought some of the biggest gaming companies — In the heart of Saudi Arabia's capital, a seismic moment for esports is underway; one which has triggered both excitement and concern across the industry.
More: VG247, BBC News on YouTube, BBC, BBC, CBC News, ABC News (Australia) on YouTube, The Esports Advocate, The Esports Advocate, and VentureBeat
X: @slasher, @liquid112, @lsxyz9, @bekahboo1290, @middlecottisme, @rlewisreports, @jacobwolf, @myra__davis, @hoffasaurusx, @fishstix, @rlewisreports, @daesanghyeokie, @fishstix, @cointree_ow, @liquidnazgul, @lsxyz9, @devrelcallum, @pengu, @jacobwolf, @thechowderhead, @moneyfolder5, @ewc_en, @teadvocated, @dszajnuk, @jimohagan, @mattomattik, @owcesports, @jimohagan, @ow_svb, and @invert_lol
| Reuters: |
Interfax: Apple removed the mobile apps of 25 VPN services from its App Store in Russia, following a request by state communications watchdog Roskomnadzor — U.S. tech giant Apple (AAPL.O) removed the mobile apps of 25 VPN services from its App Store, following a request …
More: AppleInsider, PCMag, iLounge, The Register, The Moscow Times, OSnews, mjtsai.com, Cult of Mac, Supercharged, The Mac Observer, and MacDailyNews
Threads: @mrkevinrothrock. Mastodon: @tolmasky@mastodon.social, @arroz@mastodon.social, and @tolmasky@mastodon.social
X: @nexta_tv, @appcensorship, @appcensorship, @timsweeneyepic, @mediazona_en, @appcensorship, @appcensorship, @mediazona_en, @accessnow, @acf_int, @abarbashin, @irgarner, @0xtantin, and @novayagazeta_en. LinkedIn: Patrick Wardle
Forums: r/worldnews, r/mullvadvpn, and r/vpns
| Shubham Sharma / VentureBeat: |
ElevenLabs launches Voice Isolator, a freemium AI tool for removing background noise from audio files for film, podcast, and interview post production — ElevenLabs, the AI voice startup known for its voice cloning, text-to-speech and speech-to-speech models, has just added another tool to its product portfolio: an AI Voice Isolator.
More: ElevenLabs, Maginative, and Cryptopolitan
| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi talks about reuniting with Square Enix to bring his company Mistwalker's Apple Arcade RPG Fantasian to PC and consoles — More than two decades ago, video-game designer Hironobu Sakaguchi parted ways with the company now called Square Enix Holding Co. At the time, it was an unexpected move.
More: GoNintendo, IGN, PC Gamer, Gameranx, Wccftech, Game Rant, Video Games Chronicle, Push Square, TheGamer, The Verge, TweakTown, Digital Trends, and Gameranx
X: @wario64, @ethangach, @jasonschreier, and @jasonschreier
LinkedIn: Rafael Brown and Jason Schreier
Forums: r/TerraBattle, r/FinalFantasy, r/PS5, and r/TwoBestFriendsPlay
| Malcolm Owen / AppleInsider: |
Apple says it asked Epic to fix the buttons in a future version of the Epic Games Store submitted for review; Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says Epic will “fight this” — Mere hours after reports circulated that Apple had declined to approve the Epic Games Store for iOS in the EU …
More: The Verge, Spyglass, Forbes, Neowin, PhoneArena, Gizchina, and Notebookcheck
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More: TechCrunch, TechSpot, MacRumors, Thurrott, Mashable, Stevivor, Redmond Pie, Pixel Envy, iMore, Gizmochina, The Register, NBC News, Wired, NewsBytes, Engadget, Benzinga, iThinkDifferent, IGN, Game Rant, BGR, Washington Times, The Hill, GameSpot, 9to5Mac, SiliconANGLE, The Verge, mjtsai.com, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, BreakingNews.ie, PCMag, iPhone in Canada Blog, MobileSyrup, PocketGamer.biz, Dexerto, Yahoo Finance, PYMNTS.com, Eurogamer.net, Neowin, Silicon Republic, Game World Observer, Investing.com, Mobilegamer.biz, and MacDailyNews
Threads: @samthegeek, @carnage4life, @ballmatthew, and @eric_seufert
Mastodon: @khaost@mastodon.tz.is, @stroughtonsmith …, @stevestreza@indieweb.social, @lapcatsoftware@mastodon …, @lapcatsoftware@mastodon …, @prismamidi@mastodon.social, @lapcatsoftware@mastodon …, and @stroughtonsmith …
X: @epicnewsroom, @epicnewsroom, @epicnewsroom, @timsweeneyepic, @timsweeneyepic, @timsweeneyepic, @dankaplan, @eric_seufert, and @epicnewsroom
Forums: Hacker News, r/Games, r/technews, r/Games, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums
| Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica: |
As Glaze, a free tool to help artists prevent AI from copying their style, sees an “explosion in demand”, researchers say its protections can be bypassed — Artists must wait weeks for Glaze defense against AI scraping amid TOS updates. — For many artists, it's a precarious time to post art online.
Threads: @charles.wiltgen. Mastodon: @LyleDAL@universeodon.com. LinkedIn: Christopher Parsons, Ph.D and Debora Bae. Forums: Ars OpenForum
| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
French AI research lab Kyutai, which launched in November with €300M in funding and is backed by billionaire Xavier Niel, demos its AI voice assistant Moshi — A French artificial intelligence research lab backed by billionaire Xavier Niel showed off a new voice assistant with a variety …
More: Kyutai, kyutai on YouTube, Moshi, Kyutai, TechRadar, Tom's Guide, The Rundown AI, GreenBot, Analytics India Magazine, MarkTechPost, Dataconomy, The Decoder, and Ben's Bites
Mastodon: @FreakyFwoof@universeodon.com. X: @kyutai_labs, @ryanmorrisonjer, @guillaumgrallet, @javilopen, @ryanmorrisonjer, @kyutai_labs, @kyutai_labs, @kyutai_labs, and @kyutai_labs
LinkedIn: Bernardo Perobeli, Annabelle Gerard, and Joshua Meyer
| Joanna Nelius / The Verge: |
A test of seven Copilot+ PCs, representing all four Snapdragon X chips, against similar laptops with Apple Silicon, Intel Core Ultra, and AMD Ryzen processors — We tested every Snapdragon X chip against the Intel Core Ultra, AMD Ryzen 8000, and Apple M3.
More: 9to5Mac, Spyglass, iMore, Notebookcheck, ZDNet, and Mashable
Threads: @amartino. Mastodon: @bradlinder@fosstodon.org. X: @liliputingnews. Forums: r/Surface and r/hardware
| Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg: |
DefiLlama: the value of assets locked on the TON blockchain, which is used by Telegram, surged 1,400% this year to briefly top $1B — - TON Blockchain's assets topped $1 billion after a resurgence — Telegram's previous crypto efforts drew the wrath of the SEC
More: Decrypt
| Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post: |
A look at Meta's struggles to attract influencers to Threads, due to the platform's focus on text and its lack of a clear purpose for users — Threads launched a year ago Friday but has a fraction of the users of Meta's other platforms. Content creators say they don't consider it important.
More: Android Headlines, Phandroid, Business Insider, TechRadar, The Verge, CNET, and Cointelegraph
Threads: @soupsoup, @taylorlorenz, @taylorlorenz, @michaelkevinspencer, @taylorlorenz, @yorush, @taylorlorenz, @renee.diresta, @thetanyahayles, @spudz_yt, @drewharwell, @renee.diresta, @donaldrichard, @carmona, @matthewfacciani, @thebrianpenny, @dimitrymakphoto, @liahaberman, @kathmschmidt, @notredameprime, @wongmjane, @notredameprime, and @thetechsavvyassistant. Mastodon: @Smootasaurus@mstdn.social
| Jon Victor / The Information: |
Sources: to lessen its reliance on Safari for iOS, Google considered limiting AI Overviews to its own mobile apps, but ultimately decided against such a move — Sometime in the next few months, a judge is expected to rule on the U.S. Department of Justice's antitrust lawsuit against Google over its dominance of internet search.Sponsor Posts
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